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I just built a potato gun with a barrel made of 1/2" PVC. I was originally going to launch paintballs with it (with wadding for a better seal), but I know that's going to get boring. I need suggestions on what to launch.
Originally posted by: NatePo717
I have a 6' 2" dia potato cannon at home. Have to use propane to fire itIt's got some serious kick back. Blew a few shingles off our little playhouse in the back yard from 100 yards away. Unfortunatly I think the grill lighter we used to fire it is broken
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Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
Originally posted by: NatePo717
I have a 6' 2" dia potato cannon at home. Have to use propane to fire itIt's got some serious kick back. Blew a few shingles off our little playhouse in the back yard from 100 yards away. Unfortunatly I think the grill lighter we used to fire it is broken
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I hope you mean six feet and two inches in LENGTH, not diameter.
As far as fuel I think I want to use ethanol, but I'm undecided. I hear a couple of drops of gas go a long way too.
I jury-rigged (aka Ethnic Engineered) a sparking mechanism with two screws in the pipe opposing eachother with a slight gap between them. The heads are soldered to wires that go to the circuitry from a modified one-time-use camera. (I took the Xenon bulb out and wired it to the high voltage.) I added a remote switch that gives me an extra six feet of safety, but it can be easily modified to give me more range when I decide to use exotic fuels.
The whole thing is wrapped in duct tape to hopefully slow down the PVC shards WHEN (not if) it blows up.
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
Originally posted by: NatePo717
I have a 6' 2" dia potato cannon at home. Have to use propane to fire itIt's got some serious kick back. Blew a few shingles off our little playhouse in the back yard from 100 yards away. Unfortunatly I think the grill lighter we used to fire it is broken
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I hope you mean six feet and two inches in LENGTH, not diameter.
As far as fuel I think I want to use ethanol, but I'm undecided. I hear a couple of drops of gas go a long way too.
I jury-rigged (aka Ethnic Engineered) a sparking mechanism with two screws in the pipe opposing eachother with a slight gap between them. The heads are soldered to wires that go to the circuitry from a modified one-time-use camera. (I took the Xenon bulb out and wired it to the high voltage.) I added a remote switch that gives me an extra six feet of safety, but it can be easily modified to give me more range when I decide to use exotic fuels.
The whole thing is wrapped in duct tape to hopefully slow down the PVC shards WHEN (not if) it blows up.
he means 6 feet long useing a 2in PVC pipe, ive made many that size and larger in diameter, firing grapefroots is AWSOME
Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Just a half inch?? That's like a pea-shooter!
Well... you could shoot marbles... or grapes.... or those Whoppers malted candies...
Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE
use hair spray, it works plenty well.
Originally posted by: JohnCU
http://www.spudtech.com/
Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
Originally posted by: NatePo717
I have a 6' 2" dia potato cannon at home. Have to use propane to fire itIt's got some serious kick back. Blew a few shingles off our little playhouse in the back yard from 100 yards away. Unfortunatly I think the grill lighter we used to fire it is broken
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I hope you mean six feet and two inches in LENGTH, not diameter.
As far as fuel I think I want to use ethanol, but I'm undecided. I hear a couple of drops of gas go a long way too.
I jury-rigged (aka Ethnic Engineered) a sparking mechanism with two screws in the pipe opposing eachother with a slight gap between them. The heads are soldered to wires that go to the circuitry from a modified one-time-use camera. (I took the Xenon bulb out and wired it to the high voltage.) I added a remote switch that gives me an extra six feet of safety, but it can be easily modified to give me more range when I decide to use exotic fuels.
The whole thing is wrapped in duct tape to hopefully slow down the PVC shards WHEN (not if) it blows up.
he means 6 feet long useing a 2in PVC pipe, ive made many that size and larger in diameter, firing grapefroots is AWSOME
"Froot loops" is a good cereal, but I prefer eating grapefruit. :wink;
Originally posted by: FallenHero
Ether and Pure Oxygen...do it!
Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
I built a spud cannon a while ago. 8 or 9' long 2" barrel, really big air resevoir. Anyway, we took a steel pipe, cut an end at an angle, filled it with concrete . . . we shot that mug in one side of a tree and out the other. It was amazing. Left a pretty clean hole, too.
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Posting on a site that you're making a homemade incindiary is probably a dumb idea.
- M4H